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Housingmaster: Sophomorically Seeking a Single

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 22 Comments

Housing is a special time of year—after all, it’s a time when students have to critically think about things. If you need any advice beyond that which you received from the Core, you can ask us. After all, even though the liberal arts are the greatest pedagogical tool developed in human history, they don’t teach you […]

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Ruby Bridges on Faith, Forgiveness, and Racism

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 9 Comments

On Wednesday night, the Veritas Forum hosted a forum with Ruby Bridges, along with two Columbia interviewers: Professor Michele Moody-Adams and Gabrielle Apollon, CC ’09, SIPA ’10. Ilya Wilson, CC ’12, introduced Bridges after performing an original spoken-word piece dealing with Bridges’ impact on her identity as a young black woman. Bwog’s procrastinating lecturehopper, Peter […]

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Make-Your-Own-Instrument Open Mic at Greenborough

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 5 Comments

Greenborough is putting out a call for “trash bins, pots, pans, PVC-pipes, spoons, rubber bands and homemade didgeridoos” for their second open mic of the year tonight at 8 pm. In addition to the melodious sounds of improvised instruments there will be some homemade food and prizes for the best acts. Musicians and listeners of all […]

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Bunsen Bwog: Devil’s in the Details

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 7 Comments

This week Zach Kagan, Bwog’s resident Research Rubbernecker has compiled tales of mistakes, myth busting, and gut instinct for your enlightenment. Last year physicists at CERN observed that neutrinos seem to travel faster than the speed of light. The team sent the particles from the Swiss facility to an underground laboratory in Italy and found they […]

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Spotlight on Sports: Chess

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 10 Comments

So you own a Columbia University sweatshirt—maybe you’ve even worn it to a football game or two. But what can you really say about Columbia’s lesser-known sporting scene? Cue Spotlight on Sports, in which we do the dirty work for you. Wannabe-Che(ss)xpert Ella Quittner hung out with Columbia’s chess club this past week to find […]

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Housingmaster: Hailing From Overseas

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 1 Comments

Q: I’m entering a suite with a few other guys, one of whom is studying abroad this semester. I know there are some extra steps we have to take, like designating a proxy for housing selection, but are there any other pitfalls that housing won’t tell me about until we fall into them? A: Put simply, no. Students […]

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LectureHop: Financial Justice, Affirmative Action, and Columbia

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 2 Comments

Thursday evening the World Leaders Forum hosted US Attorney General Eric Holder, who defended the Department of Justice’s policies on the financial industry, affirmed affirmative action, and gave attendees the opportunity to compare his impressive mustache to PrezBo’s hair. Government Guru Brit Byrd reports: As PrezBo’s introductory comments waxed even more glistening than his own […]

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Bwoglines: Assessing the Situation Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 1 Comments

This fancy infographic allows Columbians to compare their debt burden with everyone else’s.(Slate) U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is surprised that Americans don’t notice all the justice he’s bringing. (Capital) Tumblr has explored the darker corners of their site and decided that self-harm blogs have to go. (Time) It’s time to assess Oscar hopefuls and […]

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Found: Valuables signed Kathleen and/or Molly

By Bwog Staff on Feb 25, 2012 0 Comments

Left in the John Jay 5th floor bathroom. Security has your items.

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Overheard: A Good Problem to Have

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 10 Comments

Earlier tonight, a girl to her friend: “I have too much homework to cheat on my boyfriend tonight.” Image via Wikimedia Commons

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Orchesis Embraces Animalistic Tendencies

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 0 Comments

While you may recognize her name from the captions of innumerable Bwog illustrations, Louise McCune expresses her artistic appreciation of a more sensual form in her review of Orchesis’ new show. If you could only get your hands on the program, piece titles like “Bird Girl,” “Feral,” and “Late Anthropocene” should give you a clue […]

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LectureHop: Hilton Als on Nonfiction Dialogues

By Bwog Staff on Feb 24, 2012 0 Comments

Bwog’s Twin Truth Hunters, Alex Avvocato and Eynon, braved the swarm of soon-to-be-homeless graduate students to bring you an inter-generational campus character. The first impression of Hilton Als is surprisingly snuggly given that he’s a survivor of both the dicey starving artist New York of yesteryear and the cutthroat world of glossy magazines. The current […]

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When Your Fireside Chat Dreams Go Up In Flames

Nadra Rahman 2

fireside chat
he probably gave her ticket to a double legacy child of donors
prezbo will find any way to screw over members of his colleges
remember Obamanard? Yeah we do
that's why we only join meritocratic institutions
the institutions like Bwog or Beta

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SGA Discusses Elections And Election Accessories

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"applications are still open on a rolling basis" wow barnard's government is legit
sga
tbt to when barnard had a mission
the CEB obviously doesn't work given cheating during elections
the fact that CEB didn't have barnard students is so typical of columbia lol
why didn't CEB kick out pantone292 for cheating

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Quiz: Which (Bad) Columbia Publication Are You?

Ross Chapman 4

bwog being self-deprecating
not all of the answers are spec we promise (just ... a couple of the answers)
quiz
this was originally pitched as "which questionable spec practice are you" but there were too many to narrow down into just one quiz

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Bwoglines: Innocent Beginnings Edition

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bwoglines
i can't do tags today fam it's 6 am

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Field Notes: Superb Owl Edition

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bwog is a problematic meme
bwog is full of people living successful lives and expertly navigating social situations
field notes
is the superb owl joke dead yet? i guess we'll find out once we post this
like if the puppy bowl > the super bowl
Super Bowl

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Islam Awareness Week: Reclaiming Muslim Narratives

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but is anyone from cu apartheid divest going to these
columbia msa
Events
the only thing better than claiming a narrative is reclaiming a narrative
this post is kinda like bucket list ... except that it isn't

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How To Get Out Of Discussing Reading You Didn’t Do

Betsy Ladyzhets 0

it's 2016 why doesn't speed-reading technology exist yet
mentioning donald trump is an effective way of getting literally any conversation off track
seminar problems
seriously though how do profs expect us to do 80 pages of reading in two days
we have lives to live and bwog posts to write
yeah we had to sneak in a hamilton reference - it's kind-of instinctual at this point

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Barnard Fossil Fuel Divestment Gains Success

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barnard divest
breaking ish
dspar will prob be in stilettos
fossil fuel divest
reminder post

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